Quotes from Jack Horner

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.